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Monsters Well, if you want good cry, listen to the song "Monsters" by James Blunt. First heard it on American idol by Iam Tongi as a tribute to his father who had passed. then I had to hear the original by James Blunt There's a difference between Tongi's version and James Blunt's. James Blunt wrote the song while his dad had stage four kidney failure and was terminal. He wrote while his father was still alive. (his father did survive with a kidney transplant). It's not a tribute it's a "goodbye song". It's about the father and his father wanting to hold on for his 's sake.. it's about his father and the responsibility, love, need, protection and making up for his own failures. It never leaves you and forces you to hang on. This song is James permission for his dad to let go. "I'm not your and you're not my father"...this is not literal. It's the metaphor of what a or a father means. Not What a or a father is, but what emotional attachments goes along with being a or a father. What makes it so sad is for James, the , overcoming his own attachment and letting go. As people choose to react to this, and believe the relationship was somewhat strained. It's really a monument to the love they share. We can give up on a lot of things, but the hardest of those is LOVE. Check out both versions out on You Tube. |
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give it a try.. it's worth it.
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Oh Jiminy I watched that on American Idol as well. Both Iam Tongi and James Blunt did an awesome job of that song.BTW Iam Tongi has become a favorite of mne. What a compassionate person he is. I am glad he won American Idol.
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